Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 15th Aug 2009 17:55 UTC
Over the past couple of months, and especially over the past couple of weeks, I've been working very hard to write and complete my thesis. I performed all the work on Windows 7, but now that the thesis is finally done, submitted, and accepted, I installed Ubuntu - and immediately I was reminded of why I do not do any serious work on Linux: the train wreck that is X.org.
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Member since:2006-01-18
Incredible! I wich I could do a Thesis on how Windows is great and then flame Linux...
Anyway, as some mentionned, this is ridiculous. What have you or the auto-magical scripts done to your xorg.conf. Really I NEVER experienced this kind of crash in 10 years!
Anyway, as some mentionned, this is ridiculous. What have you or the auto-magical scripts done to your xorg.conf. Really I NEVER experienced this kind of crash in 10 years!
Well it is easy to reproduce, simply install a pre 9.7 fglrx driver and then switch on XV and composite :-)
As soon as you resize a video window you will run into a total hang of either X or the kernel.
The latest drivers are better but still crash the kernel at half of the compiz effects.
Member since:2008-07-07
So? fglrx is developped by the X / compiz team? Don't mix all that and fire on the ambulance...
I did use X with a triple screen on 2 graphic card and I don't experience any crash at all.
You want X to reload when a driver crash? What for? to crash again? And yes THE big problem in Linux is that vendor don't provide (except Nvidia) good drivers oss or not.
Edited 2009-08-15 19:43 UTC
RE[3]: A Pointless Rant
by KugelKurt on Sat 15th Aug 2009 20:03
in reply to "RE[2]: A Pointless Rant"
Member since:2005-07-06
pre 9.7 fglrx driver
A beta driver? Seriously?
"I installed a beta version and it didn't work as expected! Boohooo!"
I can't even count the crashes I experienced on Windows because of buggy drivers.
I'm not saying that X.org is without faults (see my other comments here), but ranting about a beta driver is pathetic.
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2008-07-07
Incredible! I wich I could do a Thesis on how Windows is great and then flame Linux...
Anyway, as some mentionned, this is ridiculous. What have you or the auto-magical scripts done to your xorg.conf. Really I NEVER experienced this kind of crash in 10 years! Also, you forgot to mention all the incredible power of X that still not work on Windows system ... display export etc... Also as mentionned, two things lacks the development of Xorg: man power and true drivers/hardware specifications from vendors and THEN, yes THEN we can compare. I did have incredible crash on Windows ** versions that just suddenly happens for no reason. You know the "Blue screen of Death". Even looking at the so called event logs gives me nothing.
Sounds like another Microsoft paid guy explain how cool is Windows. Sad to hear.